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The creation of a fantasy world is founded on a strategy that has a utopian trait. And just as in Utopia, The Porcelain Project creates a world that is 'placeless', a non-place that lies beyond the given order, that which is considered normal and is stuck motionless. But whereas utopias always and inevitably have a totalitarian side because they depict a perfect and pure world which, once achieved, excludes every possibility of change and therefore has no future, the fantasy world in The Porcelain Project is intended above all to mobilise the here-and-now into constant change. It is by means of fantasy that Grace Ellen Barkey resists the pessimistic realism all too often displayed in the contemporary arts, in order to express something different that is light and sparkling and not at all concrete. Perhaps it is therefore more correct to refer to a heterotopian rather than a utopian dimension: The Porcelain Project is a place for the different in the same, for resistance to the real and thus for the hope that a different world is possible.

Creatives/Company

Company: Needcompany
Choreographer: Grace Ellen Barkey